A Precious Little Thing Called Love

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A Precious Little Thing Called Love is a pop song written by J. Fred Coots (music) and Lou Davis (lyrics) and released in 1930.

background

Coots and Davis wrote A Precious Little Thing Called Love as the theme song for the Gary Cooper film The Shopworn Angel (1929), in which Nancy Carroll introduced him. The first verse of the song reads:

“When my heart misses a beat,
At some footsteps on the street,
It's a precious little thing called 'Love.'
When you don't mind staying alone,
'Cause you know Miss will phone,
' Tis a precious little thing called 'Love'. "

First recordings and later cover versions

In the United States, the film song was popularized by the cover version of George Olsen and his orchestra with band singer Ethel Shutta (Olsen's wife) (# 1). The Ipana Troubadours (# 12) and the vocal duo Johnny Marvin / Ed Smalle (# 16) were also successful with the song . Julia Sanderson and Frank Crumit sang A Precious Little Thing Called Love in the Vitaphone musical film Words of Love (1929). The musicians who covered the song from late 1923 included Annette Hanshaw & The New England Yankees ( Harmony , with Tommy Dorsey , Charlie Butterfield , Jimmy Dorsey ), the Sam Lanin Orchestra, Jess Stafford & his Orchestra (Brunswick 4249), the McKinney's Cotton Pickers , Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra (with Phil Neely, vocals), Jack Hylton and His Orchestra (with Sam Browne, vocals), Rose Murphy , Ellis Stratakos and His Hotel Jung Orchestra (Vocalion), Milt Shaw and his Detroiters (OKeh) and the California Ramblers (Edison, with Ed Kirkeby , vocals). Theo Mackeben recorded him with his jazz orchestra for ultraphone in Berlin, and Bert Ambrose and Philip Lewis in London. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 13 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz .

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380906945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 165
  2. ^ Josephine Fincken: What Clouds There Were Were White: Journals of a Brooklyn Girl, 1929–1930 . 2003, p. 95.
  3. ^ David A. Jasen: Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song . 2004, page 1917
  4. ^ Edwin M. Bradley: The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 . P. 392
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)